Introduction: Dolomite AB was in need of a dummy arm for crutch testing, to complement their existing test capabilities. Background: A large number of people need crutches on a daily basis. For them it is essential that their crutches do not fail. ISO (the International Organization for Standardization) conducts ongoing work to guarantee the durability and function of e.g. crutches.

The aim of this essay is to study the decision making process and implementation of the principle of political participation and influence for Roma minority in Sweden. The results regarding the decision making process is structured through a discourse influenced policy analyses. Problem picture and recommended measures in the political documents representing the decision making process are analysed through theories of minority rights and equality. The implementation is seen through, by the author given minority discourse and the work in the roma council and analysed by the same theories already mentioned.The results show that regarding the decision process the aim of art.15 in the framework convention is based on the idea of equality while the Swedish documents relates more to an idea of the right to speak for the group. Regarding recommended measures, the framework convention gives several recommendations on specific measures for political participation while the Swedish documents focuses on the general politics of the state.

Sales is the foundation for all commercial business and companies that have the best sales process in conjunction with efficient deliveries will do well in the long run. The author of this report was tasked by the Organisation in South Africa to study new/alternative ways of attracting Swedish companies to South Africa and sell the services of the Organisation to these same companies (defined as the sales process in this report) by analysing how similar international service companies do the same. A benchmarking process has been conducted with four similar service organizations in South Africa to examine how these companies work in comparison to the Organization. Surveys have been used for purposes of this study, as the methodology is well suited to provide the author a view on the opinions, perceptions and experiences of the respondents.The project aimed to develop new methods to attract Swedish companies to South Africa or improve and streamline the existing methods. The aim was also to develop new ways to sell the organization's services to Swedish companies.The study concludes that there is little focus on marketing of services within the Organisation.

Background: The request for the Reggio Emilia practice has expanded enormously the last couple of years within the Swedish preschools. This particular practice describes the environment as a third educator. This third educator is supposed to work as - not only a tool - but also a support to ease children's learning experiences and help develop their mind. Previous research has shown that design of, for instance, furniture has a way of affecting the children's learning process and development.Aims: The purpose of this study is to see how two different teams of preschool educators on two differed Reggio Emilia inspired preschools work and handle the physical indoor environment. Method: We started out by contacting Reggio Emilia inspired preschools.

The aim of this dissertation is to examine and compare William Easterly?s and PGU?s (Shared Responsibility: Sweden's Policy for Global Development) different views on development and international development cooperation. The methodological approach chosen in this study is an analysis of ideas based on the following questions:1. Which principles should be applied to development and international development cooperation?2.

Uppsatsens syfte är att visa hur svenska börsnoterade företag på Nordiska börsens OMX30-lista redovisar sina immateriella tillgångar vid företagsförvärv på 2000-talet och därefter se vad som kan skapa bättre förståelse för redovisningreglerna genom att tillämpa institutionell teori. För att uppfylla uppsatsens syfte har författarna valt att genomföra en kvantitativ undersökning. Empirin består av 29 svenska börsnoterade koncerners årsredovisningar under åren 2000-2005. Sekundärdata som legat till grund för den teoretiska referensramen har framförallt inhämtats från internationella forskningstidskrifter.Den teoretiska basen för uppsatsen bygger på en genomgång och analys av redovisningstraditioner, redovisningsprinciper samt institutionell teori, vilka alla bidrar till att påverka standarder och därmed hur företagen redovisar. Den teoretiska referensramen används sedan för att analysera empiriresultaten.

Yrkeslärare med ansvar för arbetsplatsförlagt lärande (APL) använder sig av olika metoder för att säkerställa att APL följs upp på ett strukturerat sätt. Studien åskådliggör de metoder som lärare med APL-ansvar använder i uppföljningen av APL. Den teoretiska utgångspunkten fokuserar på vilken kunskap som synliggörs genom dessa metoder. Tidigare forskning visar att en strukturerad process skapar förutsättningar för en bättre slutprodukt. Slutprodukten likställs i studien med en mer yrkeskunnig elev.

This thesis has treated a three-axis robot which task is to serve a larger test machine tomove the modules to be tested, from the storage to the test site. The robot is composed ofthree linear actuators; two standard components of ball screw type and a custom-builtactuator of trapezoidal type. The work has mainly focused on the custom-built device to seeif it could be replaced with a standard component. Part of the work has been to look into thepicking tool and to see if there are any possibilities to improve its function.The report presents two different proposals which I decided to call Robot 1 and Robot 2 andthey aim to address the problems arising in the purpose-built linear unit and the X-axislinearity problems. Robot 1 focuses on eliminating the problems that arise around therobot's X-axis, with such simple means as possible and without making excessive materialchanges.

Library architecture today is a complicated history. Public libraries are no longer merely a place for book storage, but also a virtual library a social meeting place and a place for study. All these diverse tasks and roles emerge in the democratic designing process of a new library and also transform into the architecture. The underlying process is the evaluation and negotiation of the libraries overall tasks and ideas, ideals and values. Multiple ideologies are incorporated in library architecture.

I dagsläget finns en rad olika certifierbara standarder för miljöledningssystem (MLS), exempelvis British Standard (BS7750), European standard (EMAS). Trots att ISO 14 000 serien har funnits på marknaden sedan 1996, finns det lite litteratur och forskning som behandlar dess ekonomiska effekter. ISO 14001 är en internationell standard för MLS och saknar absoluta krav på miljöarbetet. Kraven är mer riktade mot organisatoriska frågor, där företagen själva sätter upp sina mål. Detta examensarbete är utfört vid Skanska Sverige AB, Väg och Anläggning Norr, Distrikt Norrbotten, som är certifierade enligt ISO 14001 sedan år 2000.

The topic of this thesis interest is the relation between branding as a place making/marketing technology and the process of regionalization. The main proposition advocated is that the officially communicated image of the Øresund Region, as a cohesive place and community, is a space that has been configured with branding and can be described as a territorial simulation. The concept of territorial simulation consists of two conjoined terms: simulation which aim at explaining the idiosyncratic brand image, as a social formation, which does not represent the place it imitates but commoditise it; and territorial which seeks to visualize the process of the unfolding of this image as a territory. The main argument is made in the third chapter, which traces the process of actualization of the brand image as a territory: ?Øresund?.

 Dagens ekonomi är i mycket större utsträckning än tidigare inriktad mot tjänst och kunskapsintensiva organisationer, vilket har lett till en genomgripande strukturell förändring, det immateriella kapitalet är på väg att konkurrera ut de fysiska kapitalen. Därför är det viktigt att synliggöra denna förändring och anpassa redovisningen för att kunna skapa väl fungerade arbetsmetoder för företagen. Målet med redovisning är att redovisningen skall ge en rättvisande bild av företagets finansiella ställning. Vilka tillgångar som skall redovisas i balansräkningen för att ge en så rättvisande bild som möjligt är en svår fråga.Ett företags tillgångar kan vara både materiella och immateriella. Kraven för att få aktivera en utgift som en immateriell tillgång i balansräkningen är hårda.

I am in this essay to find out how to successfully combine new development with preservation of natural values, mainly large scale vegetation and ground formations.This is done by studies of three developments. The first development, Engeltofta backe, lies 7 km northeast of Gävle. The expectations of natural preservation were not fullfilled when this area, after the explotation, did not have any vegetation of value left. The second example, Östra Kvarnskogen in the community of Sollentuna, shows, as far as one can tell at the moment, a sucsessful combination of new development and preserved nature. The third example is a development in the community of Kullön. In this area the ambition of combining preservation and development was fullfilled. After studying vital documentation in each planning process, I made interviews with different actors in each of the three processes. I thereafter compared the different documents and answers from the interviewed persons to find out if there were any significant similarities or differences which could be of importence when natural values is to be preserved in new developments. My conclusion of this study is that it is of great importence to define key expressions often used in the process, such as natural values and preservation.

Detta examensarbete utreder nutidakrav, bestämmelser och kvalitéer vid utformning av ett så kallat Trygghetsboende enligt svensk standard.Resultatet av rapporten redovisas i form av ett gestaltningsförslag av en befintligbyggnad utifrån de teorier, litteratur och de studier jag har tagit del av i denna rapporten.Rapporten syftar i att man skall kunna utforma ett trygghetsboende utifrån de bestämmelser som sammanställts i denna rapport och samtidigt beakta de bostads kvalitéer för de äldre generationerna..

This thesis examines the conditions for participation in the decision making process of a possible mine establishment in Storuman municipality in the north of Sweden. This is done through a case study where the main actors are the mining company Nickel Mountain AB, the municipality Storuman and the Sami village Vapsten. As a theoretical framework Cecilia Eriksson?s division of democratic theories is used as a starting point. Methods as described in deliberative democratic theory, such as discussion by effected community members, are seen as a method within the participatory democratic tradition, not a theory of its own.